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George Orwell

Eric Arthur Blair

June 25, 1903-January 21, 1950

Parents: Richard Walmesley Blair & Ida Mabel Limouzin

Spouses: Eileen Maud Blair (m. 1936-1945) & Sonia Mary Brownell (m. 1949–1950)

Children: Richard Blair (1944-present)

Age:  46

Nationality: British

Genre: Dystopia & Politics

Literary Era: Modernism

Info.

Bio.

Here you talk about them as a kid.

And as a teenager.

Then as an adult.

Then as a successful person.

Works

  • Down and Out in Paris and London (1933)

  • Burmese Days (1934)

  • A Clergyman's Daughter (1935)

  • Keep the Aspidistra Flying (1936)

  • The Road to Wigan Pier (1937)

  • Homage to Catalonia (1938)

  • Coming Up for Air (1939)

  • Animal Farm (1945)

  • 1984 (1949)

  • As I Please (1968)

  • An Age Like This (1971)

  • In Front of Your Nose (1971)

  • My Country Right or Left (1980)

Themes

  • Censorship and Propoganda

  • Freedom and Oppression

  • Truth and Rebellion

  • Communism and Totalitarianism

  • Usurpation and Power

Cool Quotes

Freedom is the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

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